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Friday, September 18, 2020

What happens when you rush into "reopening the economy"?

Nobody can know. If only there was some way to know

In Spain, which was seeing fewer than 500 new coronavirus cases per day for much of June, infections have reached a fresh high, Hopkins data shows. Daily case numbers have been on the rise since July, with the seven-day average surpassing 10,000 as of Sep. 16, a higher figure than the country's late-March peak of roughly 8,000 new cases per day, according to data collected by Hopkins. Alex Arenas, a researcher and epidemiological modeler at the University of Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Spain, said most new cases are coming from Madrid.

Arenas said Madrid and Barcelona rushed to reopen businesses for the summer season and that people let their guard down after cases fell the first time "and critical patients almost disappeared from hospitals." He added that officials in some areas sought to "open the door to tourism with few or null controls over the health of visitors."
Oh well. Just have hope they all "get used to it."

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